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Craig Balan

AGNÈS VARDA’S POETIC MEMOIR OF A LIFE AT THE MOVIES
OPENS TODAY FOR A TWO-WEEK ENGAGEMENT

Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00

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“A major new film. (Has) a spellbinding visual beauty that reminds you of the transporting power of pure cinema.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“A late masterpiece!” – Stuart Klawans, The Nation

“ENCHANTING! A cinematic reverie” – David Edelstein, New York magazine

“Uninhibited about sex, generous in her affections, worldly-wise, blending solemn or tender recollections with self-deprecating antics… Varda goes far beyond a tale of life lived in art and makes a work of art in its own right, one of her best – a poignant, rapturously emotional tribute to life itself.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“In her latest, the similarly glorious and generous THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, Ms. Varda has created something of a sequel to THE GLEANERS AND I… The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda… I’m glad that Ms. Varda reserves most of the room in this movie for her own story. It’s a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking, filled with wise reflections and strange digressions about the wonders of life.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation... In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy – creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre.”
– J. Hoberman, Village Voice

DAZZLING NEW 35mm COLOR & SCOPE RESTORATION OF SUPER-CHARGED 60s MUSICAL, STARRING JANET LEIGH, DICK VAN DYKE, AND ANN-MARGRET, OPENS THIS FRIDAY, JULY 3. POSITIVELY ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00

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“ONE OF THE UNSUNG MUSICALS OF THE 1960s!” – Time Out (London)

“Sears its way into the mind's eye... it's the Mad magazine aesthetic that is key to the movie's pleasures. A particular highlight: After rocker Conrad Birdie performs his hip-thrusting, fainting-masses introductory number, Sidney orchestrates a deadpan brilliant re-creation of the wounded-soldiers crane shot from Gone with the Wind.”
– Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“A big, splashy, Broadway-derived mix of boisterous rock ’n’ roll satire and breezy showbiz formulas. This enjoyable timepiece is notable today for its peppy score, energetic dancing, and for having made a star of the extremely nubile Ann-Margret, 22 passing for 16. Her fresh, wholesome eroticism fairly bursts off the screen.”
– Time Out (London)

“ANN-MARGRET IS A WOW! Singer, hoofer and cutie-pie, all wrapped up into one, she has the magnetism of early-vintage Judy Garland.”
– Variety

“If you like what George Sidney does with Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, and pink decor, it’s sort of magnificent.”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum

LAST 2 DAYS! RICHARD FLEISCHER'S CHILLING NEO-NOIR ACCOUNT OF NOTORIOUS BRITISH SERIAL KILLER, STARRING RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH & JOHN HURT, MUST END THIS THURSDAY, JULY 2. NEW 35mm RESTORATION!

Showtimes: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50

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[5 out of 5 stars]
“AN UNDERSEEN GEM! A SERIAL KILLER CLASSIC!”
– Time Out New York

“AN EXCEPTIONAL FILM! Long before Silence of the Lambs...
a disturbingly detached, naturalistic examination.”
– Dave Kehr, The New York Times

“EDITOR'S PICK!”
– New York magazine

“Set in a nightmare London filled with decay of the soul and rotted foundations, Rillington is a bellowing black cloud of lugubrious mood and overcoming dread, lit only by the reflection of light off of Attenborough's bald pate.”
– Chris Cabin, AMC

“If 10 Rillington Place weren't based on real events, it would take the warped mind of Jim Thompson to imagine such paranoid, psychosis-driven characters. ”
– Cullen Gallagher, L Magazine

“In the giant squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fleischer created the scariest ever Disney monster. Attenborough is comparable, playing the prim, repressed killer with a single, quizzically pursed expression and an insinuating sibilant voice that drips like poison into your ear.”
– J. Hoberman, Village Voice

RIDLEY SCOTT'S ICONIC SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER, DUBBED "JAWS IN OUTER SPACE," OPENS NEXT FRIDAY, JULY 10. NEW 35mm PRINT! POSITIVELY ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

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“A nightmarishly primordial vision that's yet to be surpassed by the movies. Still shreds nerves!”
– Manohla Dargis

“Still vibrates with a dark and frightening intensity. It is a film that absorbs us in a mission before it involves us in an adventure, and that consistently engages the alien with curiosity and logic, instead of simply firing at it.”
– Roger Ebert

“Alien has a profoundly existentialist undertow that makes it feel like a Film Noir. From the first minutes of the film, as cinematographer Derek Vanlint’s camera crawls through the empty corridors, the mood of dread and confinement is almost unbearable. Watching these scenes on the big screen I recognize how few horror movies I’ve seen before or since that ever manage to capture such a tangible feeling of menace.”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“At once graphically elegant and viscerally effective... What has gone missing in the years since the first film was the essential terror that hums through much of Scott’s work... the chilled-to-the-bone fear that no one can hear you scream, no matter where you are.”
– Manohla Dargis

AN ENTERTAINING AND PROVOCATIVE NEW DOCUMENTARY
DECONSTRUCTS YOUR DINNER PLATE
NOW PLAYING

Note Revised showtimes: 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:15

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“More than a terrific movie – it’s an important one.”
– Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“FOOD, INC. is part of a new generation of food films that drip with politics, not sauces…
The director Robert Kenner takes a sprawling look at the perils of Big Food.”
– Kim Severson, The New York Times

“I gave up the thought of ‘reviewing’ the documentary and decided, instead, to exhort you: SEE IT. BRING YOUR KIDS IF YOU HAVE THEM. BRING SOMEONE ELSE’S IF YOU DON’T. The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing – it touches on every aspect of modern life. It’s the documentary equivalent of THE MATRIX.”
– David Edelstein, New York magazine

“Superb. An elegantly constructed and absorbing analysis.”
– Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

“Kenner crafts an intelligent, visually compelling argument grounded in old-fashioned investigative research and journalism.”
– Maria Garcia, Film Journal International

“The film I have always been waiting for.”
– Alice Waters, award-winning chef, author and natural food advocate

THIS WEEK'S MOVIE CHALLENGE

To win a free pair of tickets to any regular screening, Monday - Thursday in July or August, answer the following question correctly:

In THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, which opens today, veteran French auteur Agnès Varda creates a memoir through a combination of artistic reenactments, still photographs and clips from her vast filmography, as well as by revisiting the places that shaped her experience. Upon returning to her childhood home in Brussels, she meets the rather eccentric current residents, who have an obsessive passion for collecting what objects?

Email your answer to contest@filmforum.org, with “Film Forum Contest” in the subject line. See complete rules below

LAST WEEK’S MOVIE CHALLENGE

British actor John Hurt co-stars in two one-week revivals at Film Forum: Richard Fleischer's 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (ends this Thursday, July 2) and Ridley Scott's ALIEN (opens next Friday, July 10). In the 1970s, Hurt played an historical figure also portrayed by Emlyn Williams in the 1930s and Malcolm McDowell in the 80s. We asked you to name him.

Answer:

Caligula; Hurt played him in the 1977 mini-series "I, Claudius" (1976)

We received 126 correct responses. The winner is Sherman L. Greene.

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SPOTLIGHTING OUR EMPLOYEES

The year was 2001. I responded to an ad in the Village Voice for an opening at Film Forum for Membership Coordinator – a theater that I had visited once during the previous summer to see my favorite film, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. After two grueling interviews, several background checks, and a strong recommendation from former President Abraham Lincoln, I was hired. I’ve been here ever since as the membership coordinator, and also as the producer of our podcasts, while performing other tasks.

Obviously, one of the great things about working at Film Forum is that I’m exposed to so many great features and documentaries. One of my favorite memories at Film Forum is of the Takashi Miike film AUDITION. While I was watching, halfway through the film someone got up out of their seat, yelled about how horrible the film was (expletives included) and then walked out of the theater. I disagree. I think it’s a terrific film. I’ve also loved seeing older black and white films on the big screen, such as THE APARTMENT, DR. STANGELOVE and MANHATTAN.

When I leave Film Forum in the early evening I transform into a singer/songwriter currently working on my own album, and spend most of my time at home with my beautiful wife and our awesome six-month old son.

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